Lizzie Widdicombe Visits Mar-a-Lago

Mar-a-Lago was just another private club in Palm Beach, Florida, when Donald Trump bought the property and turned it into a gilded
palace. Now, for a recently raised initiation fee of two hundred thousand dollars and annual dues of fourteen thousand dollars, members
have a chance to rub elbows with the President and watch him deal with global crises in the club’s dining room. The New Yorker’sLizzie Widdicombe and the radio producer Steven Valentino travel to Palm Beach to speak with self-styled Democratic resisters by the pool and attend a benefit at Mar-a-Lago, where they sample Trump wine and wait for the President to show.

Dorothy Wickenden has been the executive editor of The New Yorker since 1996.